Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2014

You might see this fledgling business (Mine Kafon is being prototyped and tested now, thanks to a fully funded Kickstarter campaign to finance its development) as a brilliant act of business strategy. And of course, we’re talking about more than land mines. The Industries Apple Could Disrupt Next.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Businesses such as IBM and Apple were able to weather disruptive shifts in their markets by taking such a course, creating separate teams and units focused on new innovations (PCs and smartphones respectively). And every industrial leader that has joined us at Stanford over the past few years has taken such a course.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2014

LearnVest clients have access to a dedicated certified financial planner who can help them better manage their finances and achieve their financial goals, including budget planning, loan optimization, and investment allocation advice. Of course, it takes more than market research and distribution to be an insurer.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

The Solyndra scandal, of course, was even worse; mere months after an infusion of over $500 million from the federal government that was supposed to fuel a rapid expansion, the company and its much-lauded breakthrough technology (this time, cylindrical CIGS) went belly up, giving President Obama and his cleantech agenda a major black eye.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2014

The traditional advice, from Clayton Christensen’s work on disruptive innovations and Michael Tushman’s on organizational ambidexterity , is to set up the new activity as a separate unit, reporting to a manager at the corporate headquarters who can sponsor the new activity and help to integrate it with the rest of the company.

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LDRLB

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Could we be ignoring the most fundamental tool that anyone can use to create disruptive innovation and change? Of course, not all surprises are good ones. Could we be overlooking – even resisting – one of the most essential catalysts of personal and business breakthroughs? Here’s the fundamental problem.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2014

And of course Steve Jobs, the crotchety business genius who co-founded the company in 1979 and drove its recent renaissance, died in 2011. Apple Disruptive innovation Finance' That is to say, the uncertainties about Apple’s future trajectory — even over just the next couple of years — are staggering.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2018

HCCI outsourced back-office operations — human resources, accounting, finance, medical transcription, radiology — to low-cost but high-skilled employees in India. health care will not underestimate the disruptive threat from new entrants. HCCI could buy equipment for one-third or half as much it would cost in the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2011

As long as the Model T's design remained ahead of the competition, as long as it competed on price, and as long as the market's needs remained static, this was a successful and disruptive innovation strategy, since Ford had no compelling reason to innovate in any other sphere other than cost- and price-reduction.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

He's not only the controlling shareholder of Rose Park Advisors; our investment approach is based on his theory of disruptive innovation. Of course, that doesn't happen when my husband answers. When Clay is in the room, people want to hear from him. Next on deck is his son, Matt, the CEO and portfolio manager; then me.

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Christensen Sports Disruptive Innovation Learning-by-Doing 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

The problem with the effort, of course, was that building both the necessary African infrastructure and the logistics network needed to transport the non-indigenous crops was going to be a very expensive proposition indeed. He had developed an extensive plan, and had the promise of grant money behind him.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2015

Recent developments, such as falling solar panel prices and increases in efficiency rates (the rate at which sunlight hitting panels is turned into usable energy), have made distributed energy increasingly economical, while new business models and financing methods have made it more accessible. This story of disruption should feel familiar.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2013

competition from one-year, more focused courses (such as one-year degrees in finance, which are increasingly popular); and the ability to obtain somewhat substitutable credentials of other kinds. What can we predict?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2012

Of course, some men buying diamond engagement rings have another "job" they want done: signaling status. Knowing that his girlfriend has fallen in love with a particular ring would make the the man (finances permitting) less likely to go elsewhere for the ring, for fear of disappointing her. And that's the point.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2015

If everyone is amenable, I’d like to arrange a conference call next week to discuss only this and decide on a course of action.” Farb can send around his deck, with plenty of supporting data, and we can all take some time to review the information. ” New Ways to Make Money.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

As a liberal arts major with very limited exposure to business or finance, I found the stock market fascinating but bewildering. I immediately incorporated the expectations approach into my work as an analyst and it is a cornerstone of the course on security analysis that I teach to MBA students. How HBR Changed the Way I Work.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Innovation and its discontents are nothing new, of course, going back at least to the 18 th century, when Luddites physically attacked industrial looms. Of course, nobody thinks technology companies should be left unregulated.

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